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Letter: For the record

Published 5 March 2014

• We were out of order to suggest bees, wasps and ants belong to the same family in our article on insect pheromones (25 January, p 17). They all belong to the same order, Hymenoptera.

Issue no. 2959 published 8 March 2014

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